Are you tired of sitting in Beltline traffic? Can’t take one more day spent circling Madison’s downtown blocks for a parking spot? Take heed-those days may be numbered.
It doesn’t really matter if they’ve been naughty or nice. American pets are increasingly being treated as members of the family, and that means participating in holiday celebrations, including getting, and sometimes giving, gifts. UW-Madison lecturer Patricia McConnell is quoted.
Moving swiftly in the wake of an ominous warning from Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson concerning vulnerabilities in the nation�s food supply, the Food and Drug Administration issued new regulations Monday enhancing record keeping of the country�s food stock.
UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate, alarmed by the disputed firing of UW-Superior professor in 2001, voted unanimouslty Monday to ask the UW Board of Regents to meet with faculty leaders from across the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System or face a formal complaint to a national group representing professors.
“I do believe that the Regents feel they are the bosses and we are the servants, and that they have no need to speak to (us),” said Anatole Beck, a UW-Madison math professor who sponsored the resolution.
After a year of unexpectedly high milk prices, more Wisconsin dairy producers are starting to invest in their operations, the head of the state’s largest farmers’ group said Monday.
At the Farm Bureau’s annual meeting at the Marriott Madison West in Middleton, UW- Madison researchers told about 500 farmers that the state’s economy could gain from strengthening an agribusiness sector that sends $51.5 billion circulating through Wisconsin each year.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, UW-Madison political science professor.
For victims of spinal cord injuries and other paralyzing conditions, new research at the UW-Madison Biomedical Department could offer hope for a better life. Professors Justin Williams and Charles Garell have developed what they call a brain computer interface that allows people to control a simple computer program using only their brain.
To UW-Madison chemistry Professor Bassam Shakhashiri, Christmas is not about presents, trees or eggnog. It is about explosions, toxic chemicals and fire.
Shakhashiri entertained capacity crowds this weekend in the Chemistry building as part of what has become a Madison tradition, the 35th annual “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri” presentation. Shakhashiri calls the event, in which he performs dazzling chemistry experiments, “my holiday gift to the community.”
At age 65, though, UW- Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri sets a lofty goal for the experiments in his annual Christmas show: ” My aim is to reach …
A floating fungus has landed on soybean crops in the South, and experts say it could mean trouble for Wisconsin farmers and consumers.
Asian soybean rust was discovered last month in Louisiana and has since turned up as far north as Missouri and Tennessee — a finding that was as inevitable as it was unfortunate, said Craig Grau, a soybean pathologist at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Wade Bushman, a urologist and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison bladder clinic.
Quoted: Patrick Remington, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
Quoted: Anne Enke, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s certificate program for gay and lesbian studies.
Julie Andersen of Oregon traveled to rural Kenya to work as a volunteer – and changed the way she shopped forever.
Engel, a professor at UW- Madison, acknowledged that fair trade offered benefits to laborers who received more for their products. But the extra money spent on a fair trade gift would likely bring more benefits to workers in poor countries if it were simply donated to the right charities, Engel said.
MADISON — California may not be able to lure famed stem cell researcher James Thomson away from UW-Madison.
But Thomson, the molecular biologist who first isolated and reproduced human embryonic stem cells, believes many talented post-doctoral researchers will be headed to the� Golden State.
Nearly two weeks after the hunting rampage that left six dead and two wounded, residents in the small northern Wisconsin town of Rice Lake are still struggling to cope with the reality of the tragedy. The eight victims were all widely known throughout the close-knit community of 8,500, and now survivors, friends and family members are questioning how such an atrocity could ever occur in a town that up until the shootings had seen only one homicide in the last year.
Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a former public defender in Madison and Eau Claire.
The waters of Lake Michigan, food and humans all hold a growing amount of a compound used as a flame retardant banned in several European countries, according to University of Wisconsin professors.
Quoted: Benjamin Schumaker of Madison, a 22-year-old graduate student in social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Bill Steckel and his wife were planning a spring trip to Europe, but a hitch recently developed in their plans: The dollar has fallen to historic lows, making their vacation potentially much more expensive than they had anticipated.
“The short-term effect is going to be that it makes imported goods more expensive,” said UW-Madison economics professor Charles Engel.
Building a “tree of life” for all the species on the planet may be easier than first thought, according to a study by UC Davis researchers published in the journal Science Nov. 12.
The other authors on the paper are C�©cile An�©, now assistant professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madis
Quoted: David E. Joranson, a University of Wisconsin pain expert.
Jim Olson can remember fishing in Lake Wingra as a boy with his father and the excitement of catching even the smallest crappie. They are among his fondest memories.
Dick Lathrop, a lakes researcher with the DNR and the UW-Madison limnology department, said the experiment is a unique opportunity.
As college costs have soared in recent years, so has student aid, which now totals $122 billion a year. Given the new, more costly environment, it’s time for Congress to conduct a comprehensive updating of student aid programs to keep college opportunities open in a manner that is cost- effective for taxpayers.
Quoted: Scott Craven, a UW-Madison wildlife ecologist.
Quoted: Lawrence Sromovsky, a senior scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
In 1984, 22-year-old Jennifer Thompson was in her North Carolina home when she felt a knife at her throat.
“Shut up-I’ll kill you,” the assailant growled as he raped her in her darkened bedroom. Despite her terror, she forced her eyes open to desperately memorize his face, his voice, his body size.
The second annual ââ?¬Å?Dialogues with Democracy: Improving Civic Education in Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s Schoolsââ?¬Â conference will take place today at the Pyle Center.
According to University of Wisconsin professor Diana Hess, who is one of the presenters of the conference, the purpose is to help kindergarten through 12th grade students better understand the democratic process.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz wants to press ahead with his idea for city streetcars regardless of other regional rail proposals.
Members of the Transport 2020 – a joint committee formed by both the Madison City Council and Dane County Board with representatives from the city, county, state Department of Transportation and UW-Madison – expressed concern about considering commuter rail and streetcars separately.
Quoted: Mark Louden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor who specializes in Amish culture.
Quoted: Frank Tuerkheimer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and former U.S. attorney
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and a leading authority on the impact of visual violence on children.
If you’ve been wondering whether rapidly melting ice in the Arctic will eventually flood Green Bay and Bayfield, stop worrying. You see, the Great Lakes are higher than the Atlantic Ocean, about 600 feet higher at Lake Superior, said Michael Donahue, president and chief executive of the Great Lakes Commission. So the water flows downhill to the ocean, not uphill to the lakes.
John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus of limnology, is also quoted.
WASHINGTON – Concentrations of a flame retardant banned by many European countries have been found in Lake Michigan and are increasing, UW-Madison scientists have found.
Mentions a UW-Madison study that asked 15 people to rate one another on looks and personal traits.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political scientist.
Quoted: Jeremy Foltz, associate director of the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Stephen Hurley, Madison lawyer and member of the UW Law School adjunct faculty.
After the Voyager fly-by of 1986, scientists pegged Uranus as an uninteresting planet. But with the emergence of large, ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a variety of remarkable weather patterns and unusual ring features on Uranus.
A tiny, luminous sea creature and its friendship with bacteria are shifting scientific focus on the benefits of microbes as the major components of the human body and other life forms. UW medical microbiologist Margaret McFall-Ngai wrote about the walnut-sized bobtail squid in the Nov. 12 issue of Science because the squid relies on a bacterial molecule that makes humans ill.
Invertebrates living on the Atlantic Ocean’s floor are helping scientists see the effects of dwindling global biological diversity.
These invertebrates show how local species extinction can alter the ocean’s ecology and decrease the volume of ocean life, said an international team of scientists that includes UW-Madison researchers, in the Nov. 12 issue of Science.
Carnegie Mellon University once taught blacksmithing and drafting to laborers’ sons. It fit the technical school’s vision of giving Pittsburgh’s mill workers a leg up on life.
Quoted: Steve Van Ess, who directs financial aid services at UW-Madison.
Cheryl Schiltz vividly recalls the morning she became a wobbler. Seven years ago, recovering from an infection after surgery with the aid of a common antibiotic, she climbed out of bed feeling pretty good.
Quoted: Dr. Michael J. MacDonald, Director of UW Ped. Diabetes Program.
Quoted: Walter Dickey, UW Law School professor.
A University of Wisconsin professor and four other medical scientists from around the country recently discovered a toxic molecule that causes disease in humans and simultaneously allows survival in small Pacific Ocean squid.
All of Wisconsin should wish good luck to the 600,000 deer hunters expected to participate in Wisconsin’s nine-day gun hunting season. A successful hunt would be a welcome step toward reducing the state’s deer population.
The customer is always right. Cliche? You bet. But Madison business consultants and UW-Madison School of Business academics say clients and companies share equally in the delivery of customer service and consumer satisfaction.
FORT WORTH, Texas – (KRT) – A partial settlement of a Texas A&M University bonfire lawsuit was announced Thursday between the families of seven victims and 25 of the student leaders who oversaw the construction of the massive stack of logs that collapsed five years ago, killing 12 and injuring 27.
Quoted: Steven Cramer, a University of Wisconsin structural engineering professor
Quoted: University of Wisconsin botanist Don Waller reported significant losses of native plant species in northern Wisconsin
Quoted: Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
All of the Dalai Lama’s guests peered intently at the brain scan projected onto screens at each end of the room, but what different guests they were.
On one side sat five neuroscientists, united in their belief that physical processes in the brain can explain all the wonders of the mind, without appeal to anything spiritual or nonphysical.
Quoted: Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Kris Olds, a University of Wisconsin urban geography professor
While an audience of about 150 appeared to be generally sympathetic to UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovskyââ?¬â?¢s contentions that constitutional revenue limits would result in public service cutbacks, a weakened public education system, and lack of flexibility to meet changing economic needs, there were contrary perspectives expressed by two members of a ââ?¬Å?response panel.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: Ron Wallace, co-director of the creative-writing program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin professor, researcher and outspoken critic of home schooling. (Login required.)
Quoted: Mark Louden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of German, who specializes in Amish culture.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business’ A.C. Nielsen professor of marketing research
Luoluo Hong, an activist and educator, wasn’t allowed to date until she was 25 years old. She couldn’t see a movie until age 21, and her opportunities to socialize with friends were limited.
